The moment when I first played doom hasn't been equaled since. Except maybe the first time I played Quake. Since then, nothing really made me realize that I was looking at the future. Graphics keep getting better but it all seems like it's been done before.
I agree completely. Doom and Quake(world) are the only two games to make my jaw drop. Nothing has rivaled it since and I still remember it distinctly.
I ran it on my 386 with 4MB of RAM (had to use QEMM just to free up enough conventional RAM) and in multiplayer I had to set it to postage stamp size on low quality to keep it fast enough for everyone on the game.
Playing 4 player over modem (with proprietary ACPi software/hardware) was amazing! I paid long distance to call the BBS's that supported it!
I do remember Descent via Kali over modem was also the first truly large scale multiplayer game I played over the modem (with the exception of Air Warrior, which was amazing even over 2400 baud) -- where as Kali required 14.4k at least.
